With a keto diet my blood lipids where awesome, lost weight, the whole bit................this was 23 years ago.

Then back to 20 years of sedentary working, stress, not the best diet, etc sorta caught up to me. I am now a 65YO Type II diabetic, with HbA1c now right about 7. Not horrendous, not good. One thing for sure, exercise, even moderate or walking a lot works for me. It's my best bet at getting my muscle and other cells to burn the sugar, then allow my BG to drop naturally, or really for the insulin to do it's job. Hell in Italy, didn't eat any pasta, yes some gnocchi and lots of pizzas, I lost weight and BG was pretty low. Because I was so active and all the other food was so whole and natural.

BUT, I have very strong Dawn Phenomenon which basically means I wake up with really high BG. And then it drops through the day unless I eat something stupid, or don't get off my ass.

To get to the point, I have modified my diet, hard the last few weeks - 2MAD, between 10AM and 4PM, and I feel great, lost some weight but when my blood sugar is 120-130-140, my body simply will not go keto. SO I saw a ND on Friday. Quite informative. I am making some further changes.

To be continued, my numbers look good over the weekend.

Very interesting, Pablo.

For those who don't know:

2MAD = 2 meals a day
OMAD = 1 meal a day
ND doesn't mean that Pablo shot a hole in his kitchen due to his high blood glucose . . . naturopathic doctor, in this case.

Thanks and sorry for the acronyms.

FTR (hahahaha For The Record) . I started this journey pushing 180 pounds. (I'm around 5'8") Now at 168. Goal is 165.

Stress kills, I need to let some stuff go. Stress drives up BG (blood glucose) and a bunch of other nasty stuff. Low level stress over long periods can lead to dementia. Some dementia is now being called Type 3 Diabetes.

But I like the thread title. Lifestyle. The number one killer are quick carbohydrates. Sugar sure. Honey and fructose worse! Easy starches, really bad. I find some interesting stuff spikes my blood sugar, sweet potatoes and sweet squash. I can't eat those things. Oddly I have little urge to snack.

I do have my pirate coffee (yes there is another name for keto coffee)

Sucks sometimes, but I roll with it. Stay active.

Congrats on the weight loss! Nice work.

Steve is killing it!!

I have a half beef on order for pick-up early Dec. Clean, grass fed.

Ordering a hog soon.

Clean meat is good.
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I definitely have increased my healthy fat intake. Good unoxidized fresh oils (Olive mainly). But good avocado and grapeseed.
Good clean fats are essential for seniors
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Because of my age and "condition" I take a supplement regimen. I would never say one size fits all and in the past I have taken supplement and it seemed to make ZERO difference that I could detect.

Vitamin D3 liquid drops. Gel caps do zero for me. I definitely need D3 in the Oct-April months. And there is a very interesting BG-Vit D3 connection
Cod Liver oil. With D and A.
Salmon oil. Essential omegas.
Zinc. Health and helps with D3 absorption
Mg citrate - powder in water, absolutely essential for for D3 uptake (more so than K2)
Vitamin K2 (also I eat natto)
Vit B multi
Benfotiamine (B1 production for insulin
Berberine for BG reduction
Chromium for BG reduction
K citrate - potassium is excellent, keeps the Na in balance.

Side note when hiking, biking, pickleball, etc - both my water bottles Mg and K citrate. Better hydration. I can actually feel it.
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Keto coffee-Bulletproof Coffee-Pirate coffee

If you can drink black and it keeps you full until first meal, then fine. NO worries as this is not for everyone. This certainly is not for someone on a strict calorie limited diet.

I just know it works for me. The first rule is ZERO SWEETENERS. None! None of the fake ones even. They just keep you addicted to SWEET and I think not great for your liver.

There are tons of ideas and recipes out there. Just search for "keto coffee" and have at it.

My Pirate coffee is like this:

Organic coconut fat (it's solid at indoor temps). About a teaspoon. One light teaspoon of organic cacao powder (not COCOA powder with sugar and crap) . Just make your coffee or espresso on top of this. Then a splash of real heavy cream or half-half (beware the less fat in milk, carbs go up on the macro scale)

Sometimes I will sub the fats. Butter, olive oil or just use heavy cream.

If you don't like cacao, then skip that but good clean cacao has good minerals and antioxidants.

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As for normal day clean up, or eat something not so healthy - DON'T STRESS - just use your knowledge. Get back to healthy ASAP.

What I do is:
One tall glass of pure water with a tablespoon or two of apple cider vinegar (ACV)
One tall glass of pure water with half a lemon.

You will piss after this, fairly soon and your liver and kidney clean out will begin. Repeat as necessary. BG WILL drop!!

I will add some resources I have used int he past to support this.
https://www.ketogenic-diet-resource.com ... ssing.html
https://www.ketogenic-diet-resource.com ... cipes.html
https://www.ruled.me/keto-recipes/
https://www.ruled.me/keto-crispy-sesame-beef/

I also have a OneNote that I stored a bunch of easy to follow recipes. I will post it up later today.

Last night went to bed, BG 106.

Woke up BG 126
10:20 before driving down to eat BG 123
Come home around 6PM after eating HUGE. Not very keto. BG 125

My body makes insulin. Yay!!!!

Celebrate the little things!

Well I had my worries. My BG would just go, and go.........especially say with a meal and a mixed drink. Holy Cow. Ain't nothing bringing it down. As if insulin was not there or could not jam more sugar in my cells.........

I have to say, I no longer drink any alcohol. Sucks, but there it is.

It's odd in nearly a year of tracking to be so stable. Next step, keto and fast hard, going to make stable, but lower, much lower.

I think "insulin resistance" may be the term you're looking for.

That is the exact term. Trying to keep it simple. You are way ahead of me.

Shit sneaks up on a fat guy, like a silent panther in the night.

I wasn't sure where to put this one... but I'm sure this will interest most.
A history of the vilification of salt and its link to BP.... I never bought into it completely, but do make a conscious effort to minimize where I can.
Pretty much goes along with the way that they turned us all against eggs and butter too....

And . . . the results are in. Again, last year's blood test was done a month before I started keto. I have now been doing keto for just over 11 months, and the last half of that has been mostly carnivore with very few vegetables.

December 1, 2022:



December 7, 2023:



Triglycerides went down from 154 (high) to 69 (middle of normal), which is a HUGE improvement.
HDL went up from 53 to 62, which is good.
VLDL went down from 27 to 13, which I believe is good.
LDL went up from 84 to 89, which I think is irrelevant.

Total cholesterol stayed exactly the same at 164.

I am very pleased, and I am still absolutely committed to eating keto/carnivore. Fuck carbs, they are killing us.

Awesome

What was your A1C?

Way more important than lipids imho